Ezinearticles.com team has proved that they are not here to end up being an ordinary article directory.

Unlike other article directories, ezinearticles.com has a blog and forum through which they communicate with the authors. Both the blog and the forum are worth visiting:

• Eznearticles.com Forum
• Ezinearticles.com Blog

They use these platforms to discuss their plans, announce upgrades and to keep the members informed on all the issues. Transparent.

In the forum, the authors and members can start topics, ask questions and get all their confusions cleared. In Article Writing Tips forum expert authors share ideas. And there is a forum called Articles Wanted where writers can directly market themselves to employers.

Top of all, they are very much concerned about the quality of the article. Their quality checking crew is always active to improve the screening process. Once an author submits his article, it goes through several stages of checking and then only it goes live. No spam can take entry into the system. Assured.

Publishes and webmasters can get lots of good and quality articles there; but that’s not all – ezinearticles.com can be used as a good source of information on the net. Just hit the index and keep on reading!

Due to some unexpected hosting problem, we could not publish any news items in last couple of days. The bad days are over. W3Guru India is active again and will continue to bring out lot of exciting information as it has done in past.

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Google and Yahoo! – the two biggies in the www, are widely used for information searching, image searching, video searching and; eventually, they have become part of our life.

Now, nothing is perfect in this world, so are the search engines. Google and Yahoo! use different search algorithm while both of them employ text based searching techniques. The algorithms are not flawless – sometimes the results displayed by Google look good and sometimes that of Yahoo! looks more relevant.

What if Google and Yahoo! tie up for us? Well, that’s not possible, but Arbel Hakopian has created something very close to that concept. Arbel has developed PolyCola – an engine that can peek inside various search engines simultaneously and displays the results on a single page using different frames.

Using PolyCola, researchers and surfers can look at any two search engines at a time. Users can instruct PolyCola which search engines should be considered to retrieve results. “Thirsty for information? Mix your search here!” - that’s what PolyCola is all about.

PolyCola was known as GahooYoogle.com earlier. However, due to some legal issues the product has been redefined as PolyCola with enhanced features and functionalities. Why don’t you try it to know more?

Now Google will show more sitelinks in the search results, so that the visitors can go directly to the useful pages of that top site. Google announced that it is becoming very popular to the visitors and for this reason they have decided to show eight sitelinks instead or four. They have changed their algorithms to fulfill this purpose. According to Google, eight sitelinks will give a good overview of that particular top site’s content and will also help the visitors to access more topic or areas of the top site.

For more info you can visit the Official Google Blog.

Is your business dependent on Google? Have you ever thought what will be the condition of your business if your site is banned by Google? If your business is fully dependent on Google ranking then it’s not good for the health of your business.

Yes, it’s true that Google is internet’s most renounced Search Engine and it has good interface of judging quality websites but still what will you do if Google banned your well ruled and perfectly legitimate website? Nothing you can do except sending e-mail to them. You can’t call or sue them. They are not even responsible to answer your e-mail.

So, it’s better to think about that possibility and to take necessary steps through which you don’t have to depend on Google.

What are the steps you can take to be independent in the internet?

• Subscribers
• Social Media
• Forums
• Links
• Advertisement

1) Subscribers: This is one of the fast and easy ways to get touch with visitors. Try to build up email subscribers and RSS Feed subscribers. More subscribers mean your site is becoming independent.

2) Social Media: Try to involve your site in Social Media. There are many social networking sites and social bookmarking sites available in the internet. So aim at that huge section of visitors.

3) Community: Community is very important to make your site popular as well as independent. If you can run successful forums in your website then you are definitely not dependent on Google. You have your own identity in the internet.

4) Links: Links are another way of getting good number of visitors. It may not be in huge numbers, but if you have huge links then you can expect good no. of visitors.

5) Advertisement: You can give advertisement in popular websites. It is a good way of getting visitors without depending on Google.

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Las Vegas will be eyeing WebMasterWorld PubCon Conference Vegas 2007 from December 4 - 7 this year. PubCon is the round table attended by search engine marketers, search engine optimizers, marketing executives, webmasters, affiliate managers, program and channel managers and all related professionals from all over the world.PubCon Vegas is going to concentrate on the topics like Search, Web 2.0, Net Marketing, SEO/SEM, Affiliates, Domainers, Video, Multimedia: aka:Webmastery. PubCon has been formatted and organized in such a way that people with different knowledge level can benefit from it.

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigs List, Richard Rosenblatt, CEO and co-founder of Demand Media, Inc and Matt Cutts, Software Engineer at Google Inc. will be presenting keynotes. The special evening session will feature icons of Search Engine standard like Tim Mayer, Rahul Lahiri, Dan Boberg, Matt Cutts, and Eytan Seidman.

W3Guru India wishes all the best to all PubCon attendees, sponsors, supporters and organizers; it is expected that some new standards of success will come out from PubCon Vegas 2007.

The popular Social Bookmarking Website BlueDot.us has is now known as Faves.com. Blue Dot or Faves has informed all the members through email. The reason that has been cited behind this change is: members prefer .com domain over .us hence Faves.com is here.

With the new domain name, Faves.com is going to offer some new features as well. Topic subscriptions and Personalized Home Page are such two marks Faves.com members will enjoy from now on.

However, this change does not need any modifications on members’ part. Members can use this Bookmarking site as they had been using it so far. The toolbar offered by this Social Bookmarking Website does not require any modifications as mentioned in the newsletter.

The penetration of Internet in India being high, the biggies have started recognizing Indian festivals. It’s obviously a part of business networking and relationship building. The post “Orkut wishes Happy Diwali to all its members” has illustrated how Orkut, one of the popular social networking websites in India, has wished Indians on Diwali.

Now, Yahoo! is not lagging behind. Yahoo! India interface is showing dazzling candle images and animated fireworks. Yahoo! has wished Happy Diwali in the perfect Yahoo! way – the Yahoo! logo at the top-left corner has been modified for Diwali; as it is usually done during any special events and festivals.

AOL is also up to celebrate Diwali. They have added a nice candle icon beside their logo on AOL India home page.

Hence, it is clear that Internet Marketers has understood how prospective Indian market is. All the major search engines are supposed to give each other a tight fight here in India and it seems they all are ready for the battle.

Happy Diwali once again!